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I stood in Venice
Filed under: Scrapbook | Tags: | junio 20th, 2015
I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs,
A palace and a prison on each hand:
I saw from out the wave her structures raise
As from the stroke of the enchanter’s wand:
A thousand years their cloudy wings expand
Around me, and a dying Glory smiles
O’er the far times, when many a subject land
Looked to the winged Lion’s marble piles,
Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles!
(George Gordon Byron, “I stood in Venice”, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, 1815)